Asia – Copper engraving
Delamarche – 1804L’Asie par Robert de Vaugondy revue et Corrigée par Delamarche, son successeur
A nice , original copper plated engraved map of Asia including India before partition and Tibet noted to be the country of the Eluths.
The map is from: Nouvel Atlas Portatif destiné principalement pour l’instruction de la jeunesse d’après la Géographie Moderne de feu l’Abbé Delacroix”, by Charles François Delamarche.
About the cartographer
Charles Francois Delamarche (1740-1817) founded the important and prolific Paris based Maison Delamarche map publishing firm in the late 18th century. A lawyer by trade Delamarche entered the map business with the acquisition from Jean-Baptiste Fortin of Robert de Vaugondy’s map plates and copyrights. Where Vaugondy could not make ends meet as a geographer, Delamarche prospered as a map publisher, acquiring most of the work of earlier generation cartographers Lattre, Bonne, Desnos, and Janvier, thus expanding significantly upon the Vaugondy stock. Charles Delamarche eventually passed control of the firm to his son Felix Delamarche and geographer Charles Dien (1809-1870). It was later passed on to Alexandre Delamarche, who revised and reissued several Delamarche publications in the mid-19th century. The firm continued to publish maps and globes until the middle part of the 19th century.
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The map is professionally framed using high quality and acid free materials.
H: 24 cm x W: 27 cm
H: 9 ½” x 11”
